Watched all three episodes of the U.S.A.'s 2022 Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes, a documentary on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer based on 32 hours of taped conversations made between July to October 1991 and collected by defense lawyer Wendy Patrickus. The documentary includes video interviews with police investigators, reporters, a forensic psychologist, psychiatrists, the district attorney and prosecutor, a medical examiner, an LGBT museum curator, and the perpetrator's and victims' relatives and friends.
This documentary provides a clearer chronology of the murders than that in Dahmer (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story). Some of the details are also presented differently here; a few examples are the mannequin (Dahmer smashed and disposed of it in this documentary while his grandmother threw it in the trash bin in Monster), the library note incident (absent in Monster), the murder of 14-year-old James Doxtator (absent in Monster), and the pig dissection episode (he brought home only a pig's head in this documentary while he asked his professor for an entire pig's body in Monster).
It was eerie hearing the dead man's dispassionate voice narrating and describing his crimes. One always hopes that there will be no more men like him now and in the future. In the end, though, this is merely one case study of a lonely man who wished that the objects of his desire would stay with him forever.
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